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Education will be the topic of the April 3rd Eggs & Issues breakfast, sponsored by Georgia Power. Anthony Pack, Superintendent, Monroe County Board of Education and Mickey Daniell, Energy Efficiency Education Coordinator, Georgia Power Company, are speaking. Monroe County's Educational System has been rated in Georgia's Top 20 under Anthony's leadership. Mickey and his 10 peers have delivered their "Learning Power" program to 115,000 Georgia students in less than two years. Anthony and Mickey's presentations will be informative, interesting, and entertaining.

We will be meeting Wednesday morning at 7:30 in the Monroe Room at the Ramada Inn.

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Voters will decide whether to approve the education local option sales tax or ELOST that would take effect after the current one expires in 2014.

Voting is currently underway and will end March 19. Cast ballots at the Monroe County annex building from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

"When people vote for this one penny sales tax, if they just consider the name BART, B-A-R-T. That's buses and transportation, arts and ag, repairs and maintenance, and technology," says Truett Goodwin, the Cultural and Academic Supporters of Excellence, or CASE, chair.

It's a group that supports the ELOST.

The ELOST will last until the $29 million is raised or at the end of 5 years. Of that, 25 percent will be used for a fine arts building and animal science building.

"When the elementary schools do their performance, students, teachers and parents have to stand. There's just not enough room," says Percell Kelley the CASE treasurer.